“The leading proponents of two of the hottest emerging
technologies in IT — Java and Linux — will link arms this
week.”
“At the Java Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif., IBM
will announce the free general availability of a Java Software
Developer’s Kit 1.18-compliant Java virtual machine (JVM) for the
Linux operating system, with performance that exceeds that of JVMs
running on Windows NT, IBM officials said.”
“Meanwhile, Sun Microsystems is preparing to release in early
2000 a Java2-compliant JVM for Linux that brings the performance,
functions, and Java HotSpot features of the latest Java
specifications to the Linux community, according to sources close
to Sun Microsystems.